20.7% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yatte Yattah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yatte Yattah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates in Yatte Yattah have remained strong, with 20.7% of people giving their time to help others. This is well above the national figure, marking the area as a place where community contribution is far more common than in most other regions.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.7% of residents volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 17.2% of people providing care—much higher than most areas. While those caring for children unpaid are a little below the state figure at 23.1%, 25.4% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework, well above the national figure.
17.2% ▼ -26.6%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% ▼ -16.3%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
Defence service is very prominent in Yatte Yattah, where 7.1% of people have served. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the national figure of 2.8%.
7.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Yatte Yattah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14515/yatte-yattah/topic/community